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The Agrarian Depression in Seventeenth-Century Spain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Michael R. Weisser
Michael R. Weisser
Affiliation:
Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208.
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Abstract

This article summarizes recent research on the agrarian depression in seventeenth-century Spain, relying primarily upon data from the provinces of Segovia and Toledo. Both regions suffered sustained losses of population and stagnation of production and failed to develop a permanent interior market structure. Due to its reliance upon sheepherding, the Segovian rural economy recovered slightly by the end of the century, but in Toledo, an economy almost entirely dependent upon grain production, demographic and economic indices were negative throughout the entire period.

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Papers Presented at the Forty-First Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , March 1982 , pp. 149 - 154
Copyright
Copyright © The Economic History Association 1982

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